METHOD, DEVICE, AND PROGRAM FOR GENERATING FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCY PATTERN AND METHOD, DEVICE AND PROGRAM FOR SYNTHESIZING VOICE

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and a device for generating a fundamental frequency pattern which generate a fundamental frequency pattern of a voice approximating that of a voice uttered by a person and to provide a method and a system for synthesizing a voice, which use the same. SOLUTION: A first fundamental frequency pattern and a second fundamental frequency pattern which correspond to a text are selected from a first storage means wherein a plurality of first fundamental frequency patterns for each first rhythm control unit being a unit of voice for controlling rhythmical features of a voice corresponding to the text are stored and a second storage means wherein a plurality of second fundamental frequency patterns for each Second rhythm control unit being a unit of voice, which has a time length shorter than that of the first rhythm control unit, on the basis of language information obtained from the text, and a fundamental frequency pattern of the voice corresponding to the text is generated on the basis of at least the selected first and second fundamental frequency patterns. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO